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Lunar New Year Love Story
by Gene Luen Yang
If you have ever been to the Lunar New Year Festivals, you have probably seen the lion dancers. What I didn’t know, until reading this graphic novel was that each country has its own interpretation of how the lion dances, and even what it looks like.
Valentina decides she wants to learn lion dancing. Valentina is trying to decide if she should give up on love. Valentina has been told by her grandmother that generations of her family have been unlucky in love, and she should just face the facts.
Valentina’s best friend loves falling in love. She just hates it when love is not so fresh anymore, and you have to work at the relationship part. To her, it is a party all the time, and she encourages Valentina to just fall in love anyway, and then move on.
And it doesn’t help that the spirit of St. Valentine is haunting her and encouraging to just give up on love, and not to bother with having feelings at all.
There were so many good personalities and moments in this book. I love how blunt the grandmother is. I love how the dragon dancers are drawn, along with the sounds of the drums. I love how Bernice just accepts whatever it is that is going on with her best friend. And I love the quiet moments, such as when Val is looking at the stars Jae.
It is probably best to go into this story without knowing too much, as there is so much going on, and being revealed, throughout the story.
Suffice it to say, I am a little biased because I love everything Gene Luen Yang writes. He has just such a great way of telling his stories, whether they are contemporary, or tales of Superman, or historical fiction in the time of the Boxer Rebellion.
I highly recommend you go out and get your hands on this. Although it is a romance, it isn’t really one of those typical YA ones.
Valentina decides she wants to learn lion dancing. Valentina is trying to decide if she should give up on love. Valentina has been told by her grandmother that generations of her family have been unlucky in love, and she should just face the facts.
Valentina’s best friend loves falling in love. She just hates it when love is not so fresh anymore, and you have to work at the relationship part. To her, it is a party all the time, and she encourages Valentina to just fall in love anyway, and then move on.
And it doesn’t help that the spirit of St. Valentine is haunting her and encouraging to just give up on love, and not to bother with having feelings at all.
There were so many good personalities and moments in this book. I love how blunt the grandmother is. I love how the dragon dancers are drawn, along with the sounds of the drums. I love how Bernice just accepts whatever it is that is going on with her best friend. And I love the quiet moments, such as when Val is looking at the stars Jae.
It is probably best to go into this story without knowing too much, as there is so much going on, and being revealed, throughout the story.
Suffice it to say, I am a little biased because I love everything Gene Luen Yang writes. He has just such a great way of telling his stories, whether they are contemporary, or tales of Superman, or historical fiction in the time of the Boxer Rebellion.
I highly recommend you go out and get your hands on this. Although it is a romance, it isn’t really one of those typical YA ones.